Coat of arms of Bjurholm
Bjurholm’s arms show a black beaver on a wavy gold bar across a blue field.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I blått fält en genom vågskura bildad bjälke av guld belagd med en gående svart bäver med röd tunga med röda tänder med röda naglar.
This is the Swedish description in the Heraldica record. How it was composed and whether it is an official blazon have not been independently verified here. The editorial text distinguishes registry information from municipal or local interpretations.
Designers
- Vladimir A. Sagerlund
Registration and history
- 20 September 1951: Royal confirmation on
- 25 September 1987: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms and their description
The Swedish description in the Heraldica record specifies a black beaver with red details on a wavy gold bar in blue. This record wording is kept distinct from an independently verified municipal blazon.
Source: Heraldica record 3377
Background in local sources
A digitised 1906 local history held by Umeå University Library connects the name Bjurholm with “beaver islet” and says beavers lived on an islet in the area. This offers a local place-name parallel to the beaver in the arms, but it does not establish why the charge was chosen. The record lists confirmation in 1951 and registration in 1987.
Source: Umeå universitetsbibliotek: Blad ur Bjurholms församlings historia·Heraldica record 3377
Heraldic elements
The heraldic elements are identified using HERO, a heraldry ontology published through Finland's Finto service. It provides structured terminology for describing coats of arms and their components. The list describes the structure of the arms, not the symbolic meaning of its elements.
- escutcheon
- fess
- field
- Or
- Gules
- Azure
- Sable
- beaver
- unpartitioned
Sources and image rights
Heraldica / National Archives of Finland · Wikidata
Image licence: CC BY-SA 3.0
Image source and credit: National Archives of Sweden / Vladimir Sagerlund
Original image. The image has been resized and converted to WebP. The derivative retains the original image’s licence.
